On Saturday 19 January 2008, Giorgio Valoti wrote:
> Hi all,
> I’ve noticed that using the -P option with portupgrade, which should
> try to fetch the binary version of a package rarely works. Most of
> the times it tries to fetch the package from the freebsd site, it
> fails and then proceed to build it from the sources.
> While I can expect from to time that a pre-compiled version of a
> package to be unavailable, it surprises me to see this so many times.
>>> Thank you
> --
> Giorgio Valoti
This is expected, since the packages are built from the ports tree. Thus
binary packages are always late. -P is most useful when distributing your own
centrally built packages.
- Pieter de Goeje